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Four NYC Parks datasets sit underneath this: Athletic Facilities, Pools, SkateParks and Dog Runs. Together they describe 6,073 places to do something, across 1,011 park sites, in every community district in the city.
The agency's own community district field is wrong often enough to matter. It carries values like 403404406407408, blanks, and in one case a Bronx park filed under Staten Island. So every location was reassigned by point in polygon against the Department of City Planning boundaries. Forty nine landed somewhere other than where the agency said they were.
Eight large parks are mapped on their own rather than inside a numbered district, because that is how City Planning maps them. Prospect Park, Central Park, Van Cortlandt, Pelham Bay, Bronx Park, Forest Park and Flushing Meadows each get a page here.
NYC Parks records cover the parks NYC Parks runs. Some of the most used parks in the city are run by someone else, and their courts and fields never reach the agency data. Brooklyn Bridge Park showed up here at its full 21 acres with nothing in it but a dog run. Hudson River Park was not in the city's park file at all. Nobody using a park cares who holds the deed, so nine of them are filled in from OpenStreetMap and marked with who runs them: Brooklyn Bridge Park, Hudson River Park, Battery Park City, The Battery, Governors Island, Bryant Park, Domino Park, Riverbank State Park and Roosevelt Island.
Start here
The whole city, the thing you want to do, or your own district.
By borough
Each opens fitted to the borough, with its community districts underneath.
By what you want to do
Every location in the city for one thing, ranked from wherever you are.
The large parks
Mapped on their own by City Planning rather than inside a numbered district. Each still sits in a borough, shown on the tile.
By community districtAll 59 ▼
All 59, each opening on its own district.
Built on public data from NYC Parks and the Department of City Planning, via NYC Open Data.